Chris Saul's Blog

Monday June 29, 2009

Francoise Hardy in English

Radio 2's The Sounds of the 60s played Francoise Hardy's 'All over the world' recently - the English version of 'Dans le monde entier'.

Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, I came across this video from 1965 of Hardy singing the song whilst, somewhat bizarrely, sitting on the roof of a car wearing pyjamas and driving around Picadilly Circus.

This is definitely my favourite English version of Hardy's songs.

I also came across this brilliant version of 'Will you still love me tomorrow'. I need to play this at the next party I'm at and see who else enjoys dancing to it.

Hurrah for our Air Outpost in Hot and Desolate Sharjah!

The National has a super video from 1927 up on its multimedia page.

Watch it here.

I'm often teased for speaking posh, like, but the commentator's cut glass accent on this short film is wonderful.

Jaldi chellow, the aircraft's on its way! Fetch the Persian petrol boys, the Arab guard and the Indian servants straightaway!